{"id":172,"date":"2005-10-26T18:10:11","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T05:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/?p=172"},"modified":"2005-10-26T18:10:11","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T05:10:11","slug":"approaching-pizza-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/approaching-pizza-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Approaching pizza perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">S<\/span>aturday was a challenge. My daughter&#8217;s 17th birthday, and 17 bright young women descended on the farm to make merry. I had to make pizzas. 20 in all. The wood-fired oven got its first use since our mid-winter truffle extravaganza. It takes about four hours to get really hot &#8211; pizza hot &#8211; when starting from cold. This time, I used the dough recipe from Nikko Amandonico&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1845330749\/qid=1130298438\/sr=2-1\/ref=sr_2_3_1\/026-1685193-8796407\"><em>La Pizza: The True Story from Naples<\/em><\/a> (excellent book, by the way), with a mix of organic stoneground flours provided (with fresh yeast) by Martin at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheesemongers.co.nz\/about.asp\">Canterbury Cheesemongers<\/a> (excellent shop &#8212; can&#8217;t leave without spending a small fortune on great cheese). Worked a treat. The dough was pliable and elastic, baking quickly to a lovely crispy crust. The girls seemed to like them, but my sternest critic was the most impressed. &#8220;Best yet&#8221; was Camille&#8217;s comment. I shall bask in the warmth of that praise for &#8211; ooh, hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was a challenge. My daughter&#8217;s 17th birthday, and 17 bright young women descended on the farm to make merry. I had to make pizzas. 20 in all. The wood-fired oven got its first use since our mid-winter truffle extravaganza. It takes about four hours to get really hot &#8211; pizza hot &#8211; when starting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/approaching-pizza-perfection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Approaching pizza perfection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-wine","tag-pizza"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}